Well, former Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge
Hannah Dugan finally received her sentence from the
Federal Court. To recap, Dugan was found guilty of
one felony count for obstructing federal immigration
agents. After a jury found her guilty in December 2025,
she resigned from the bench. The charges stemmed
from an April 2005 incident where the erstwhile judge
had a confrontation with Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) agents who were waiting to arrest
a defendant outside Dugan's courtroom, then directed
the individual and his lawyer out of a private exit in
the jury room, a room only jurors, bailiffs, and the judge
are permitted to be in at any and all times in order to
help the defendant to avoid capture.
Dugan's defense team attempted to overturn the guilty
verdict by arguing that ICE proceedings are not covered
by the relevant federal obstruction statutes, but U.S.
District Judge Lynn Adelman, one of the most liberal
federal judges in the country, officially denied the motion.
Under a barrage of threats of impeachment from Republican
legislators, Dugan resigned from the bench on the Milwaukee
County Circuit court in January 2026. Dugan faced a maximum
sentence of five years in prison. However, because she has no
prior criminal history, her legal team requested a sentence of
time served, as she was already placed in federal custody for
a brief time. Team Dugan also cited the severe professional and
personal consequences that Dugan already endured.
Federal prosecutors have suggested, though, that the legal guide-
lines indicated a prison sentence of 15 to 21 months.
Ah, but lo and behold! The former county judge was
sentenced to receiving a $5,000 fine, no time behind bars,
and no probation.
That's all.
That's it.
Judge Adelman said that despite federal sentencing guidelines
calling for incarceration, "For several reasons, prison is not
necessary to satisfy the statutory purposes for sentencing,"
making this statement from the bench. But again, let's refer
to the charges that brought the former Judge Dugan to
Federal Court.
The former judge attempted to obstruct a pending proceeding
before the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
the defendant being an alien here illegally to begin with, then
being charged with assault and battery on two people as well.
If this criminal were to have gotten away with fleeing ICE and the
FBI, who knows what mayhem he may have committed against
innocent law-abiding citizens? Or whatever other crimes against
anyone?
Judge Dugan was never a supporter of President Trump's immigration
reform, resulting in tighter laws regarding entering our country
illegally, and she was thought to have acted in the manner which she
did being out of sorts with Trump's reforms. Thankfully agents were
able to capture and arrest the fleeing thug in front of moving traffic.
At the sentencing hearing, Judge Adelman found that Dugan had
abused her position as an official holding public trust, and that
the conviction in this case makes the point "affirm(ing) that no one
is above the law,"
But with the astonishingly light sentence, and the strong likelihood
of some big-monied lefty or a left-wing political organization coming
forth to pay Dugan's fine, and Dugan not even receiving parole let alone
a prison sentence, how is the conviction, then, being paired with the
super-light sentence meted out, affirming Judge Adelman's statement?
And here's food for thought: what if the case was about, say, one of
the participants in the January 6, 2021 ruckus at the Capitol, and the
judge hearing the case did for the defendant(s) what Dugan did for the
defendant in the case she was going to hear? And the judge brought up
on the same charges? Would the judge hearing the case be anywhere
as lenient in sentencing the defendant(s)? Furthermore, what if the
presiding judge was a strong left-winger like Judge Adelman?
The Peasant thinks it would be a different story altogether, wouldn't
you, my sharp readers? Just wait 'til you get two paragraphs further
down!
This episode put the law enforcement agents and the public at risk.
Doesn't this merit a stronger sentence for Judge Dugan?
As it stands, Hannah Dugan can no longer be a judge in any court
because of her record as a convicted felon. But she says that she will
look for a different job in public service. Methinks the ex-judge has
a misbegotten notion of what a public servant and public service is.
A person in that position would not take any action which would place
law enforcement people and the public at large in peril, while making
it all the more difficult for the former to function.
Finally, there is the ol' Liberal Double Standard: the law is not applied
equally and fairly to people of certain political persuasions in too many
cases. Here, local conservative talk show host Vicki McKenna said on
her show when the sentence came down that Dugan was given the
ridiculously light sentence by a judge with a left-bent just like her
because, well, she's a member of The Club, as McKenna terms it.
The Club is basically the Liberal Establishment, and its members
look after each other, doing things like running interference for them
and covering for them. And how do they treat conservatives?
They clobber them! They throw the book at them! They apply
a completely different standard! And if the public is adversely affected,
who cares? They're just a bunch of peasants after all!
Folks, it's time to give Lady Justice back her scales of Justice minus the
imbalancing weight attached to them. And it's long past time we elected
truly impartial judges to helm our courts, as well as government
officials who will nominate other such judges. Let's close The Club
for good!
MEM
